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Author : Milton Steinberg
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American fiction
ISBN :

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Exploration of the times of Elisha ben Abuyah.

Author : Milton Steinberg
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780874419504

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"A magnificent work of fiction brings the age of the Talmud to life and explores the times of Elisha ben Abuya, whose struggle to live in two worlds destroyed his chances to live in either. Now with a new forward by Rabbi David J. Wolpe"--

Author : David L. Larsen
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
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Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825494321

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Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 2226 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0195297512

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The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today. A committee of highly-respected biblical scholars and rabbis from the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism movements produced this modern translation. No knowledge of Hebrew is required for one to make use of this unique volume. The Jewish Study Bible uses The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation. Since its publication, the Jewish Study Bible has become one of the most popular volumes in Oxford's celebrated line of bibles. The quality of scholarship, easy-to-navigate format, and vibrant supplementary features bring the ancient text to life. * Informative essays that address a wide variety of topics relating to Judaism's use and interpretation of the Bible through the ages. * In-text tables, maps, and charts. * Tables of weights and measures. * Verse and chapter differences. * Table of Scriptural Readings. * Glossary of technical terms. * An index to all the study materials. * Full color New Oxford Bible Maps, with index.

Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Jewish day schools
ISBN : 9780881256420

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In the advance yeshiva, adult males spend long periods of time-sometimes their entire lives-studying and interpreting traditional writings on Jewish law and theology, all but totally cut off from the mainstream of American life, and indeed, the lives of most American Jews. Why is this East European incarnation of an ancient Jewish tradition flourishing in present-day America? What does its successful transplantaion tell us about Orthodox Jewish life?

Author : Kerry M. Olitzky
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1879045095

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By presenting a Jewish perspective on The Twelve Steps and offering consolation, inspiration, and motivation towards recovery, this guide explains how the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are relevant for Jewish people as well as Christians. Afterword on "Where to Go for Help" by The JACS Foundation (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others). Illustrations by Maty Grunberg.

Author : Daniel Walden
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271063475

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Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created unforgettable characters forging American identities for themselves while retaining their Jewish nature. The essays illuminate the central struggle in Potok’s novels, which results from a profound desire to reconcile the appeal of modernity with the pull of traditional Judaism. The volume includes a memoir by Adena Potok and ends with Chaim Potok’s “My Life as a Writer,” a speech he gave at Penn State in 1982. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Aarons, Nathan P. Devir, Jane Eisner, Susanne Klingenstein, S. Lillian Kremer, Jessica Lang, Sanford E. Marovitz, Kathryn McClymond, Hugh Nissenson, Adena Potok, and Jonathan Rosen.

Author : Reina
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1466956364

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In the words of Elie Wiesel: The man who left his mark on so many survivors of so many massacres in Central and Eastern Europe, the leader who not only made survival imperative but possible, the Master who gave to despairing communities, managedwe shall never know howto disappear without leaving the professional seekers even a fragment of valid autobiographical material. Obsessed by eternity, he neglected history and let himself be carried by legend. Wiesel is talking about the Baal Shem Tov, The Master of the Good Name. Readers acquainted with Jewish history will have an idea who the Baal Shem Tov was. But the width of the spectrum of such ideas can be immeasurably wide. Equally wide is the range of emotions these ideas arouse. Readers unacquainted with such a history may be able to read this book more easily as a novel, which it is. What surrounds the stage of our action is, of course, the great world of history and a time of disruptions and new thinking. Of great consequence is the transmission from China of the musical theory of equal temperament which forms the basis of almost all musical composition from the mid18th century to the music saturated present. This musical theory was received and then published in France by Mersenne in 1636; in 1722 it was being championed by Bach in his instructions to young musicians collected under the title, The Well Tempered Clavier. That year the Baal Shem Tov was probably earning his living digging clay and accompanying his labors with Carpathian shepherds tunes. The story is told through the eyes of an invented student of his who becomes a physician in Prague.

Author : Stephen M. Wylen
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809139606

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A comprehensive survey of Judaism, its history, beliefs, practices and customs, branches and sects, from its founding to the present day.